11:18 PM,
Jan. 10, 2014

Students of Florida Gulf Coast University travel through the courtyard while attending classes.

Written by

Dave Breitenstein
| Fort Myers News-Press

The success of Florida Gulf Coast University's men's basketball team isn't just making it harder to find good seats and parking spaces on game days.

It will make it more difficult for students to gain admission to the university.

FGCU has seen an unprecedented surge in freshmen applications, a 35.4 percent year-over-year spike that President Wilson Bradshaw would like to think is a result of surging academic prestige. He knows that's not the sole reason, though. ...